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Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: Adam on July 28, 2014, 10:47:24 AM
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Hi everyone! Me again!
Does anybody know how the cover transition intermediates were created? The half-human half-animal images. I'm curious because I'd like to make covers for my own continuation of the series!
I have photoshop, so maybe I could do something on that?
Thanks,
Adam
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I know a few of them were done with CGI (some more obviously than others), a couple look like they were just painted (digitally?), and the rest were painted/photographed and photomorphed together. There are a number of programs out there that will take an image and blend it into another using automated or user-specified reference points.
I can't recommend any specific programs, as I've never done this myself, but a few google searches for photomorphing tutorials should help you out. There's probably a good Photoshop technique or two for it also. Photoshop is amazing.
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Tried it manually in photoshop, and it was a little more successful than I thought it would be!
For anyone who actually wants to read it... :P https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9525996/1/Seer (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9525996/1/Seer)
I wanted to start doing these properly for when I do my continuation of the series.
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Apparently David B. Mattingly (original Animorphs cover artist) used a program called Elastic Reality from Avid, which is now no longer available.
However, there's a great tutorial by Aizxana at DeviantArt (Part 1 (http://aizxana.deviantart.com/art/Full-Body-Morph-Tutorial-P1-67650141), Part 2 (http://aizxana.deviantart.com/art/Full-Body-Morph-Tutorial-P2-67649982)) that uses a mix of Sqirlz Morph (http://www.xiberpix.net/SqirlzMorph.html) and Photoshop.
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That's actually not too bad. It looks better than a few of the ones they actually made.